http://www.afn.org/~afn02552/hny.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57348322/california-condors-rebound-with-some-human-help/

http://www.mnn.com/family/pets/stories/the-owl-and-the-pussycat

Mine was a silent movie.  I'm hoping for an Oscar. 

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Whereas Rochester, NY would probably hire a Minnesota company.

05/11/06

Posted May 10, 2006  11:02 AM

Well, now that you folks have been brought up to speed on Mariah's
injured foot, I can come out of semi-lurkerdom.

The watchers have been out over the past few days, and excuse me for
saying this, we've been watching her like a "HAWK!". 

None of us have reported on her condition because we were waiting to
see what the experts had to say.  As Jim said, we're in watch and
wait mode.

I took a few hours off yesterday afternoon to watch Mariah.  Geeze, I
feel like I'm on Fledge Watch already.  But we'll do anything for our
Mariah.

I sensed there was something wrong on Saturday, when Kaver was in the
nest box all day long.  He even seemed surprised when the first eyas
broke out of his/her shell beneath him.  I kept thinking, where is
Mariah!

For those that are watching M&K for the first time, be assured that
an uninjured Mariah is a Super-Mom.  It was breaking my heart to see
her struggling just to remain upright, putting her wing down for
balance, when she came in to cover the eggs.  A few folks sent us
Emails stating that Mariah wasn't a really good mom and that Kaver
was an outstanding father (which he is!!!).  But it made me so sad to
think that Mariah was being thought of as a sub-standard mom.    I
understand that they didn't know about her injury and they couldn't
judge on past years, but it still hurt.  Just my way too human
emotions taking over.  Sorry.

Each day she seems to improve just a little bit.  She's dealing with
her injury.  Yes, an eyas escapes now and then, but I think she's
doing a fine job of keeping them protected and fed.

Kaver is doing an outstanding job of compensating for Mariah's
weakness.  He's been helping to feed the eyases and at one time
yesterday, he actually came into the nest box and fed Mariah!

Marcia, Dan and I first noticed that her leg was hanging down while
she was in flight on Sunday.  We were very worried.  But, the good
news is, that her flight is strong and her landings are on the most
part successful.  The only time she has problems is when she carries
prey in her "good" foot and tries to land on her "bad" foot.  Dan and
I saw evidence of this yesterday afternoon when she tried to land on
the center smoke stack's catwalk and missed the railing, landing on
the floor of the catwalk.  I believe that she ate her dinner before
she flew up to the catwalk railing.  She remained there for about an
hour before returning to the nest box.

So, be assured that we will be watching her very intensely.

I'll post an album tonite with some pictures of Mariah in flight.

If you have any questions at all, please post them and we'll try to
answer them for you.

Take care,
Carol P.

http://www.wimp.com/amazingtechnology/

My son was going to stop at Walmart on the way home last night to pickup a $2 waffle iron!  Hope he made it home okay.

Site now includes ads.

http://youtu.be/z2-wHYAMbEo

Changed the clock, then spent that extra hour trying to get it back on the little nail in the wall.   

The cameras are up again.

We will need to take them down again Sunday morning for a few hours.

To work on the lighting on the main cam?

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MAKfalcon (MAK): MAK has left the building and is home sweet home!

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Puppy fakes her own death while playing